I missed the meeting, but I just read the minutes and saw minimal discussion on the topic of custom CDs. I think we should, even if not much is changed. We can use Reconstructor (http://reconstructor.aperantis.com) to make it easier.

Bordy

April 6th, 2007, 01:17 PM

max:
yeah we were thinking about it, but it seems to be way too much work for one person to do. If you want to give it a shot, I am sure somebody would gladly collaborate on it.

Have you used reconstructor before?

ep2011

April 7th, 2007, 02:43 AM

max:
yeah we were thinking about it, but it seems to be way too much work for one person to do. If you want to give it a shot, I am sure somebody would gladly collaborate on it.

Have you used reconstructor before?

I've never used it, but it seems VERY easy to use (I was looked at screenshots, which is basically a guide, and also http://ubuntusoftware.info/distro.html . I'd be interested in helping with that, but what sort of features would be useful for it?

feravolo

April 7th, 2007, 01:42 PM

I have been working most of yesterday on getting a USB key drive to work as a Live Boot Device, maybe we can consider including these as a way to spend ubuntu or use them ourself during the development of custom distribution. They are getting cheaper all the time and I have seen lots of 1 Gig Keys for under $20.

You can also have them custom made with our Florida LoCo Logo, but them we would have to sell them to recover the productions costs.

I will document how I got this to work when I am done, since following the procedures on the websites that I have found doesn't. I have got to the point when my computer recognizes the key as the boot device, then I see ISO Debian bla bla and then it snarls out saying it can't find the kernel.

One another note there is a really e-zine called "Full Circle" developing for the different flavors of Ubuntu. Here are there website and forum thread.

They have been working very hard and it's looking real good. Links to it are at the end of the tread. I plan to mirror the issues somewhere soon.

Mike

feravolo

April 24th, 2007, 05:20 PM

Hello:

Here is a Quick Fix for the Scary Live CD . . .

In a post to the marketing group I noted that people that I have given the Live CD's to were scared off by the term "Start or Install Ubuntu" on the splash screen. Here is know you can change that "scary text" before you burn your own Live CD's. You will need the following software tools: An ISO Editor (isomaster), a text editor (gedit) and a iso image of a unbuntu distribution.